Hainan Li Research Ghettos Democratic Autonomy

The democratic self-government,including autonomy of minority region autonomy and grass roots self-government,is a fundamental political system of our country.Along with the foundation and growth of the People's Republic of China,based on ethnic equality and unity,the system has promoted the realization of the nation's prosperity and development of Chinese.As a practical form of grass roots self-government,the villager autonomy system has been carried out and implemented in the vast rural areas in China since 1990 s with the promotion of “Reform and Opening-up” policy.This dissertation adopts the country's unique neighborhoods Hainan Li as the research object,with the basis of the Marxist theory of regional ethnic autonomy and grassroots self-government system,aims to investigate the village of Li in Baisha Li Autonomous County,which is the most concentrated population distribution of Li and the best preserved area of traditional culture of Li,and to combine the studies of the ethnic regional autonomy and villagers' autonomy altogether,in order to find out the historical trajectory and characteristics of the generation and development of the area's democratic autonomy.This dissertation is composed of six chapters as following.The first chapter discusses the Marxist theory of nation and grass roots autonomy.Nation is a product of human history in a certain stage of its development,and the substance of national struggles is class struggle.The Marxist theory of ethnic autonomy and grassroots is right based on class oppression,ethnic oppression and liberation critique of capitalism;Chapter two discusses the Chinese system of regional ethnic autonomy and villager autonomy.Regional ethnic autonomy is established according to the history and realistic conditions of our country,and it is a fundamental political system of our country to solve our national problems by using Marxism-Leninism,in order to establish and maintain a unified multi-ethnic country jointly by the various ethnic groups.Whereas,the villagers autonomy is younger in comparison with the regional ethnic autonomy,just started in 1980 s,but it has been playing an important role in the construction of socialist new countryside.Nevertheless both of the system of regional ethnic autonomy and villager autonomy system are the product of the combination of Marxism nationality theory with Chinese practice.Chapter 3 pays close attention to thespecific minority of Hainan Island – Li,with a brief description of the geographic distribution and history of Li of Hainan,it highlights Li's traditional governance model-"co-acre system",and its far-reaching impact on the historical development of Li.The fourth chapter focuses on the construction and improvement of regional ethnic autonomy system and the system of village autonomy in Li's area in Hainan.The practice has proved that the implementation of regional autonomy for ethnic minorities is in accordance with the fundamental interests of our country,while the administration rights for the minority of the region's and the nation's internal affairs are fully guaranteed.This can not only make it possible for the socialist ethnic relation to go further and to improve under the condition of equality,solidarity and unity,therefore more favorable to the economic development and social progress,so as to achieve the purpose of safeguarding national unity and stability of society.Chapter five illustrates the operating mechanism of regional ethnic autonomy Li neighborhood and village self-government,according to the practical investigation of Baisha County – Li's central area.And through the investigation of Li's village elections and decision-making,the village cadres' deployment and cooperation of responsibilities,rights and interests,"Configuring and aspects of the division of labor,"Village" term and re-election,the villagers of democratic consciousness and the actual participation to reflect the status quo,such as the Li ethnic regional autonomy and villagers' autonomy.In addition,both of internal and external factors impacting Li's village autonomy are illustrated out,and the achievements and shortcomings of the autonomy are enquired.Chapter six,as a composition,reflects on modernization of the rural governance system and capacity,propounds suggestions in the following seven respects:to encourage the national amalgamation in the regional ethnic autonomy;to strengthen the leadership guidance and supervision of villager autonomy;to improve the ability of village cadres and villagers' literacy;to make full use of village organizations in the poverty alleviation policy;to make the "beautiful countryside" construction as an upgraded version of the new rural construction;to improve the relevant aspects of the legal system and learn from other regions' experiences of democratic self-government,in order to make the development of Li ethnic regional autonomy better.